bdp24
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? I consider John Simon almost a sixth member of The Band on their first two albums. I hadn't known he produced the first BS&T album, which is completely different from the ones that followed. I've never read why Al Kooper left his own creation ... | |
| Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On" MFSL UDOS 45rpm Ha! Actually Steve, I intended my comments about the production and engineering to address that issue. But now that you mention it, Tom Dowd’s engineering (including his work with The Stones and others) is good in terms of the field he worked in--... | |
| Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On" MFSL UDOS 45rpm I need two characteristics of a recording be present for me to consider spending big bucks on a new reissue---music that I don’t just like, but love, and the original recorded sound quality be sufficiently high to justify a superior remastering an... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? test | |
| For those of us over 60.. onhwy61, I used the term "monster" literally, not in terms of him being a great drummer necessarily. For whatever reason, his drums sound kind of thin and weak on the Electric Flag album. Live, he sounded as "punchy" as Keith Moon, pounding his dr... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Real good point lewm, perhaps the reason linear-tracking arms are known for their great bass reproduction. | |
| best preamps folkfreak graciously invited me over to his place to hear his system, which includes a Ref 40. He runs it with the top cover off, so I was able to see it’s guts. That pre is a thing of beauty, a real work of art. But for me to spend 25 g’s on a pr... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Damn wolf, I’m green with envy. Though going to shows in San Francisco frequently, I somehow managed to never see the Grape live. Same with Springfield. But the one band (heh) I most regret not seeing live are The Hawks, whom you also saw. Punk ;-) . | |
| For those of us over 60.. Bloomfield was SO important to use suburban white brats, introducing us to genuine Blues guitar playing in The Paul Butterfield Band in 1965. I was lucky enough to see Mike, Buddy Miles (a monster drummer), and Harvey Brooks (great bass player) li... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Buffalo Springfield and Moby Grape remind me of each other---almost too much talent for one group, both with three guitarists and singers, and multiple songwriters. Springfield’s three album are all must-owns imo, and while the Grape’s are more va... | |
| The current best band in the world? Not at all Steve. Another detail: while the Evan Johns Moontan album was being mixed and mastered (by Rodney Mills, who worked with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Atlanta Rhythm Section, 38 Special, etc.), a tour was being set up to support the release of the al... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Wikipedia says Jim Gordon was a member 1971-2, Roger Hawkins (and bassist David Hood, Roger's rhythm section partner in The Swampers) 1972-3. So Jim and Roger were both playing drums in Traffic during 1972. After Roger left, Capaldi returned to th... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Late in their history, Capaldi moved from the drum riser to the front of the stage (he was a songwriter as well as drummer), and Hawkins and Gordon were brought in to play double drums. Do a search on Google Images for pics of them on stage. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Clint Black is great, a throwback to the Honky-Tonk singers of the 1950's. | |
| The current best band in the world? All right, anyone already sick of my long posts, you don’t want to read this, so just skip on by. This is for slaw, but may also be of interest to those wondering how many musician’s lives are lived. No Steve, my move to Portland is the combined e... |